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TIL that Duke Nukem Forever holds the Guinness World record for "Longest development period for a videogame"

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MmLV TIL that duct tape (85%) is significantly more effective than cryotherapy (60%) for removal of the common wart.
eNP6 TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer
V40Z TIL a 1913 survey of US children working under difficult conditions in factories found that 412 out of 500 would rather work in sweatshops than the “monotony, humiliation, and cruelty” of school.
ABQw TIL Scientists once had a favorite curb in Hayward, CA. They studied the curb because it lay on the Hayward fault line & was being pulled apart each year. This evidence of Earth’s shifting plates was observed from the 1970s till 2016 when the city decided to fix the sidewalk & unknowingly ruined it
YpB7W TIL By law in the UK, citizens must register for a TV license to watch live TV